Bell secures the No.28 guernsey previously worn by the 249-game club best and fairest and four-time premiership ruckman Peter “Percy” Jones, while Heyne gets the No.37 worn by the game’s inaugural Norm Smith Medallist and triple premiership player Wayne Harmes.
The No.39 guernsey worn by Carlton’s 1995 premiership defender Ang Christou will now go to Dale, while Lodge has the chance to make his own indelible imprint wearing the No.49 given that the games record holder in this guernsey is the 1972 premiership player Andy Lukas with just 11.
Carlton's new recruits for season 2012
Carlton’s three national draftees - Dylan Buckley, Sam Rowe and Josh Bootsma - were previously delegated their guernsey numbers.
Buckley will sport the No.7 guernsey made famous by Carlton premiership players including Ted Hopkins, Wayne Johnston and, more recently, the Senior Coach Brett Ratten. He had earlier opted against wearing the No.16 worn by his father, the three-time Carlton premiership player and club best and fairest Jim Buckley.
Sam Rowe dons the guernsey No.17 recently vacated by Setanta O’hAilpin. Carlton’s 1964 Brownlow Medallist and club best and fairest Gordon Collis, together with the exhilarating Carlton premiership players Brent Crosswell and Mark Naley, also sported the No.17 on their backs.
And Josh Bootsma will turn out in the No.21 of Carlton’s games record holder and three-time club best and fairest Craig Bradley, who wore the guernsey with distinction in 375 matches from 1986-2002, including the Grand Final triumphs of 1987 and ’95.
The late Ken Baxter, the only man to represent Carlton in the premierships of 1938, ’45 and ’47, also carried the No.21 on his back, as did premiership players Charlie Fisher, Herb Burleigh, Frank and Barry Gill and Rod Austin.
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